Youcca Troubetzkoy — A Real Prince at Last (1925) 🇺🇸

Hollywood has had so much nobility, both real and synthetic, swarming around during the last few years that titles have grown to be rather a bore.

Therefore, the arrival of Prince Youcca Troubetzkoy [Youcca Troubetzkov], signed by Carl Laemmle [Carl Laemmle Sr.] to appear in Universal pictures because of his capable work in the French studios, might have occasioned little comment had it not developed that the prince was a native son.

Chance elected that he be born in Los Angeles twenty years ago when his parents were touring the world. His childhood was spent at the Russian court, whence his family fled to Nice during the revolution. Dancing on the French stage occupied him until he won a movie contest — apparently they have them over there too — and then he played in a number of French films.

A fifteen-minute interview with Laemmle resulted in the five-year contract which has brought him back to the city of his birth. He speaks English, Russian, and French well and German and Italian imperfectly.

His humility is expressed in his belief that he will never develop into a leading man or hero, though he hopes in time to become sufficiently skillful to play the worldly gentleman of the Menjou [Adolphe Menjou] type.

Photo by: Roman Freulich

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, September 1925